setting up right sharing and the rights

ok, this is a new program which will all activate on next Friday, January 20th, 2006 at 12:00 GMT, noon. so i would like to point out some features here and some useful info. i will keep this forum thread updated with hints and explanations during this week or maybe longer, if needs testing.

and first news was...
1. PRIVATE FLAGS on torrents - a must. this was easily resolved by adding this feature automatically when new torrent is uploaded. with this flag torrents are protected from non-registered users. also it is your effort to go into your client options and switch OFF the DHT use.
2. bitComet client of any versions below 0.61 will be banned from this tracker 7 days & 1hour since this post on Friday, Jan 20th, at noon 12:00 GMT.
this is done just to keep the swarm away from outsiders, and even with dht disabled bitcomet of earlier versions would start sharing torrent with nonregistered leechers after a while, so any versions 0.60 or below are being banned from the website.

new ratio rules. they are quite straight forward...
new ratio rules will also be activated on Friday, Jan 20th!! more info on this in ratio::F.A.Q. shows what your ratio must be. so.. what does it mean?

- for newly registered users : when downloading something, you must consider two things: your ratio and your uploads. say you have 800 MB downloaded with ratio 0.05, making it only 40 MB uploaded. you download another torrent of size 250 MB, making it over 1GB total and your ratio still stays at 0.05. now you're in trouble - ratio 0.05 is less than minumum ratio of 0.10 with 1GB downloaded, and website will not allow you to download new torrents or continue downloading other torrents you have unfinished in your torrent program (client). this is the moment you stop downloading and start sharing what you have downloaded. if closed, open all torrents you've got from the website in the torrent-client program you're using and seed them for as long as it takes to bring your ratio up to 0.10.

- for experienced users : all of the above, plus you can upload and share your mp3 that are not on the website. this takes some effort reading forums info on how to make torrents and more, so please take time and do it,  if you want to upload and share. also you can open ALL stuff that you've got from this tracker in your torrent client and let others grab it. also consider donating as another way.

this is all really serious. if your ratio doesn't comply with the rules, you lose downloading rights. this is a free website and some users are working their butts off to bring you the best stuff in the net, freshest stuff fastest than any other website, so please be so kind to contribute back!

BitLord torrent client of any versions will also be banned on Jan 20th.
if you have any arguments towards the ideas posted on the main page news section, please reply to this message. otherwise BitLord(all) is getting banned, BitComet(

some users could think i was bluffing about the fake uploads detection.. so for everyone who wants to try and cheat the system - you gotta be really smart and sly to do that. here's an example of a report all the staff can see every time a fake upload gets detected:

this clearly shows that some user has cheated the tracker with a fake amout of data uploaded on that torrent, system saw it and reported all details. think before you do that. this user has survived the ban, but anyone else who decides to cheat will be banned without any conversations!!!

new!! hit-and-run policy is now active! this means that if you decide to download torrent and not seed it, just close and remove from client, then you get a hit-and-run and a personal message telling when and how. 4 such messages and you get a warning for a week, which closes downloading of torrents for the whole 7 days. if you happen to take 3 more hit-and-runs after this first warning making it 7 total - you are banned from the website. again and again i wanted to say: we want to be a sharing community. but if you don't like out rules - you cannot be here. sorry.

also new reporting feature has been created, so that power users and higher can browse the lists of users have snatched this torrent and report those who hit-and-run, if staff doesn't notice that. please use that feature if you feel some users is abusing you or us just acting out of hands!

all right, that's it. everything is active right now. hit-and-runs are given. those who received any already can voice their opinion. bitcomet

and here we go again. if you have a warning, you can still download mp3s. but for that you will need to write comments and take part in forums. so, for every post you make you get 5 points, equal to 5MB of virtual ratio data, which can be used towards getting a torrent and downloading torrent data by wasting those points. it is all explained here, so every warned user can use this feature. but make sure, if your comment is deleted - you lose 10 points. and also seed those new mp3 you will get this way, since you really need to improve ratio, and newly downloaded amount will hit it too! btw, non-warned users won't see any changes in the help page, since they don't need this feature to download music, but anyone freshly receiving a warning will get credit for all fresh (2 days old) posts and comments, so you can start your downloading break with 30points if last 2 days you've posted 6 msgs. also i've added those credit points to people's warned accounts who did post in last 2 days totalling of 140 points awarded. please use this feature wisely.